2015 Data+ Editors' Choice Awards
James Yang
The 2015 Data+ Editors' Choice Awards honorees, which include PayPal, Zulily, DirecTV and National Grid, are mining data to make fast business decisions, measure risk, create efficiencies and more.
Editor's Note: Chosen by a panel of Computerworld editors,
these 19 organizations are discovering valuable insights in their data
streams, using analytics to solve vexing business and humanitarian
problems. Read on for insights into how these award winners are making
smarter decisions using big data.
Children's National Health System
Integrating health records with geospatial data helps clinicians target safety campaigns.
Medical teams at Children's National Health System
want to keep kids out of harm's way, so they offer injury prevention
advice to residents of nearby communities. And technology has proved to
be a key component of that initiative -- clinicians have found that
using geospatial data helps them better target their messages.
The Washington, D.C.-based healthcare center took its existing
electronic health records system and integrated it with geospatial
software from Esri to display health data with geospatial coordinates. One of the first projects focused on pediatric burn cases.
Children's National Health System
Children’s National geospatial analytics team members Eduarda Silva, Siena Quitania, Jefferson McMillan and Chris Saremi.
"What GIS mapping allowed us to do is identify the hotspots where
injuries were occurring and map them out," says Dr. Randall Burd, chief
of trauma and burn surgery at Children's National.
That visual map enables staffers to devise prevention programs tailored
to the demographics of areas with high rates of injuries, Burd says. For
example, if the system identifies a cluster of toddlers with bad burns
in a Hispanic neighborhood, the staff will work with community groups to
provide parents of young children with Spanish-language information
about safety. Burd says the work has paid off: Children's National is
seeing fewer burn patients overall and fewer patients requiring
high-level burn care.
Jefferson McMillan, manager of business intelligence and clinical
analytics, says Children's National had a strong analytics program
before implementing the GIS component but adds that the mapping feature
helps staffers "better understand what happens outside the four walls of
our hospital to better prevent disease and conditions."
McMillan says Children's National is now using the technology to map
concentrations of other medical conditions, such as obesity and asthma.
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